Mike
@misaligned.markets
Was Philosimplicity on the other site. Now Revealing how market economies structure our reality @ https://misaligned.markets/
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Mike
@misaligned.markets
· May 21
AI hype is a mirror of market fundamentalism
Both AI enthusiasts and market fundamentalists gloss over the context needed to understand complex systems.
misaligned.markets
(1/8) What is #misalignedmarkets? My political economy begins by taking F.A. Hayek seriously. He saw markets (and minds) as a form of decentralized processing a logical “spontaneous order” that aggregates knowledge. (I'm sure like Dawkins he'd have been one-shotted by Claude).
New post is out. Deep audit of the assumptions in the most common types of superintelligence arguments and why we have little reason to believe them.
Even if superintelligence is real, not everyone dies
Maximal AI doom claims rely on chains of unvalidated assumptions that we must audit before accepting.
misaligned.markets
November 14, 2026 at 10:04 PM
New post is out. Deep audit of the assumptions in the most common types of superintelligence arguments and why we have little reason to believe them.
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AI labs writing 400-page threat models on how a superintelligence might socially engineer humanity while the guy holding the entire planet's GPU supply folds to a regular 1962 honeypot
November 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
AI labs writing 400-page threat models on how a superintelligence might socially engineer humanity while the guy holding the entire planet's GPU supply folds to a regular 1962 honeypot
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My mind is trapped in the weird space between 2000s cartoons and rationalist discourse. Am I going crazy or does the Jimmy Neutron episode Sheen's Brain demonstrate Yudkowskian FOOM?
I jokingly thought this a year ago, but after finishing my Superintelligence draft I can't unsee this.
I jokingly thought this a year ago, but after finishing my Superintelligence draft I can't unsee this.
Sheen's Brain
Sheen's Brain is the 11th episode in season 2 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The episode starts off with Miss Fowl's students finishing up a history test that was apparently so hard t...
jimmyneutron.fandom.com
November 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
My mind is trapped in the weird space between 2000s cartoons and rationalist discourse. Am I going crazy or does the Jimmy Neutron episode Sheen's Brain demonstrate Yudkowskian FOOM?
I jokingly thought this a year ago, but after finishing my Superintelligence draft I can't unsee this.
I jokingly thought this a year ago, but after finishing my Superintelligence draft I can't unsee this.
Wrote 15k words on superintelligence… genuinely can’t believe I did this lol.
October 28, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Wrote 15k words on superintelligence… genuinely can’t believe I did this lol.
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October 23, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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One wonders then about his level of thinking in other realms, even those in which he's a putative expert...
It really is amazing that the world's first-ever trillionaire thinks politically at the level of a 15 year old 4chan poster
October 23, 2026 at 7:11 PM
One wonders then about his level of thinking in other realms, even those in which he's a putative expert...
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researchers when they discover their work is embedded in a larger system
October 23, 2026 at 5:25 PM
researchers when they discover their work is embedded in a larger system
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Nathan Fielder Quietly Deletes Footage Of Theranos Machine Working Perfectly
October 22, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Nathan Fielder Quietly Deletes Footage Of Theranos Machine Working Perfectly
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METR has closed this request and archived the repository because "HCAST tasks are now deprecated".
Okay @metr.org, but you still have the Time Horizon chart on your website, without enough metadata about those tasks provided for third parties to fully audit your claims.
Okay @metr.org, but you still have the Time Horizon chart on your website, without enough metadata about those tasks provided for third parties to fully audit your claims.
Release more metadata about the private tasks · Issue #7 · METR/hcast-public
I understand the need to keep the full definition of the private tasks confidential in order to prevent benchmark contamination. However, it's impossible for independent researchers to fully assess...
github.com
October 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
METR has closed this request and archived the repository because "HCAST tasks are now deprecated".
Okay @metr.org, but you still have the Time Horizon chart on your website, without enough metadata about those tasks provided for third parties to fully audit your claims.
Okay @metr.org, but you still have the Time Horizon chart on your website, without enough metadata about those tasks provided for third parties to fully audit your claims.
Release the Mass Effect IP, cowards!
Mark Darrah, who worked as an executive producer at BioWare from 1997 - 2021, shared his thoughts on the studio’s recent closure by EA and what he thinks might happen to its iconic IPs. https://bit.ly/4dQFBcu
October 22, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Release the Mass Effect IP, cowards!
#enshittification made me realize that markets are like browsers. Capitalists get to shape which inputs market systems see (property rights, obligations, entitlements) to shape market outcomes. bsky.app/profile/misa...
Enshittification is particularly galling because (in theory, at least), digital technology should be *really* hard to enshittify.
October 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
#enshittification made me realize that markets are like browsers. Capitalists get to shape which inputs market systems see (property rights, obligations, entitlements) to shape market outcomes. bsky.app/profile/misa...
I spent the past 2 weeks working on a critique of superintelligence... it is now nearing 10k words, and I'm questioning why my grief and other life choices led me here.
On the plus side I came up with this cool Laplace's demon pun.
On the plus side I came up with this cool Laplace's demon pun.
October 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I spent the past 2 weeks working on a critique of superintelligence... it is now nearing 10k words, and I'm questioning why my grief and other life choices led me here.
On the plus side I came up with this cool Laplace's demon pun.
On the plus side I came up with this cool Laplace's demon pun.
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you know you were thinking it
October 21, 2026 at 1:05 AM
you know you were thinking it
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a 27 year old trans woman died after being refused entry to either the male or female cancer wards & made to wait for a (rare) side room
www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...
www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...
Justice For Joelle | Trans Legal Clinic
www.translegalclinic.com
October 19, 2026 at 9:25 AM
a 27 year old trans woman died after being refused entry to either the male or female cancer wards & made to wait for a (rare) side room
www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...
www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...
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*exhausted sigh*
A tell tale sign that AI companies have no safety expertise is that they promote the idea of "general" safety. There's no such thing, safety is relative to the system, environment, and context and why a catastrophic accident in nuclear is defined differently from one in aviation.
October 19, 2026 at 9:22 PM
*exhausted sigh*
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If it seems too good to be true, it probably is
So these are all AI, let your friends know who post them
October 19, 2026 at 6:40 AM
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is
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"Just like labor law gave workers associational rights to meet the workplace conditions of mass industrial capitalism, so too can associational data rights give data producing communities associational rights to meet the mass, aggregate cultural production conditions of informational capitalism."
We Need A New Kind Of Data Rights
Associational data rights would empower communities to reclaim power from Big Tech
www.democracyrenovator.com
October 18, 2026 at 4:58 AM
"Just like labor law gave workers associational rights to meet the workplace conditions of mass industrial capitalism, so too can associational data rights give data producing communities associational rights to meet the mass, aggregate cultural production conditions of informational capitalism."
@colin-fraser.net is getting repeatedly quote BS’d (what do we call BS tweets?) in my next article. The man can’t stop making sense while also having a great sense of humor.
There’s a symmetry that’s often missed. The subtext of “neural networks can certainly in principle be conscious” is neural networks are a magical invention that can be made to take on literally any imaginable property.
October 17, 2026 at 9:41 PM
@colin-fraser.net is getting repeatedly quote BS’d (what do we call BS tweets?) in my next article. The man can’t stop making sense while also having a great sense of humor.
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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (2026)
October 17, 2026 at 7:14 AM
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (2026)
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What would happen if you took a stock market bubble bigger than the dot-com bubble and combined it with a pile of risky debt bigger than the one that caused the 2008 financial crisis? You'd get something that looks a lot like the AI bubble we have today.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Report - Brace for Impact: Protecting People and the Economy when the AI Bubble Burst — Open Markets Institute
Our report in partnership with Americans for Financial Reform outlines vulnerabilities in the financial system and wider economy that could intensify an AI crash into the next financial crisis, and pr...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org
October 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
What would happen if you took a stock market bubble bigger than the dot-com bubble and combined it with a pile of risky debt bigger than the one that caused the 2008 financial crisis? You'd get something that looks a lot like the AI bubble we have today.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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